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Recruiter issues

Hi everyone.  My sons recruiter will never return any calls.  There is no one else that I can see that might be working in the office.  I realize he is busy however he has also forgot about appointments and then will call back weeks later only to apologize.  We live about 40 minutes from the office so it's not like its right around the corner.   In the meantime my son is torn between going to another recruiter or just sticking it out with this one.  Neither one of us want to appear as a complainer or troublemaker but at some point something has to give.  My son had very high scores on his asvab, no criminal problems whatsoever in his past-he's a good guy.  Only 18 and ready to get going.  The only problem he had was a medical problem that has already been addressed-it was a wart that had to be removed (of all the crazy things).  He had the wart removed and all apperwork resubmitted.  We recently learned that this recruiter is going through a divorce.  I feel bad for the guy but I would be fired if I disapeared off the face of the earth for weeks at a time.  I dont expect this guy to hold my sons hand but common courtesy wuold dictate that if you tell someone you will get abdk to them in 5 days and now its 3 weeks laster something is wrong.  I am sure the Navy would agree.  Any advise/suggestions/help?

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Permalink Reply by Miamishark on February 16, 2011 at 4:37pm
I posted this on another group, and one of the Mom's sent me this way, maybe you can answer me here.  First of all, I'm a dad, just so you all know.  here is my post.  "I'm curious, my son is in the process of filling out all of his paperwork and going to MEPS to enlist.  His recruiter doesn't seem to be really helpful.  He just dropped off all his forms, including letters from counselor saying he graduates in June, and all of his background information, and the recruiter didn't say anything to him.  Just accepted documents and let him walk out.  That doesn't seem correct?  Is it me, or should it be a little different?"
Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on February 16, 2011 at 5:00pm

1) make sure you make extra copies of everything requested, have a log of all your activities.

2) definitely go to another recruiting office and talk to someone else. I am not sure what the process is but it not uncommon.

3) join New Moms Stop Here. post a question to Angie and/or Tim

4) don't give up, keep trying. good luck.

Permalink Reply by nycnative12/ProudparentHMSR on February 17, 2011 at 5:30pm
Like everyone else is saying find a new recruitor. Or contact the commander of the office and speak to them. When my daughter was going in they had no quota for males at all just females. Then two months later they opened up for males. Bottom line find another recruitor
Permalink Reply by Henry's Mom on September 25, 2014 at 11:27am

How do you find the next in command for a recruiter?  Ours is not replying, and for the 3rd time has postponed taking ASVAB's again, with little advance notice. 

Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on September 26, 2014 at 12:14am

Henry's Mom

This is a very old post but I did googled "Navy recruiting PA" click on the following to see results:

I googled Navy recruiting PA and came up with

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%...

Find the district office which includes the one where your son has been going to.  You can ask them for a reference to the NEXT nearest recruiting office.  Good luck.

Permalink Reply by Henry's Mom on October 2, 2014 at 3:25pm

We got the ASVAB's done today!!!!! Finally!!!!  And he improved his scores so much.  Now to find out when he's scheduled for next steps.

Thanks for being there.

Henry's Mom - Barbara

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